Playing Card Designs

Realistic Drawing and Digital Design Techniques

2013-2016

In this unit, students learned about creating interesting gestures, and accurate human proportion and use these to create aplaying card design.We began by learning how to do gesture drawings and get interesting poses on paper.Students then measured themselves, and learned how to fix their proportions to be accurate.They learn about body shape and how to draw body parts, getting accurate humans on their paper before adding clothing and accessories.After looking at different playing card designs, they design a playing card with a theme that shows through their clothing and accessories.Their designs are finished using Adobe Photoshop/Pixlr to manipulate their drawings to create an interesting card composition and add color.